Terms & Conditions

CTQ Terms of Service (“Terms”)

Last modified: December 18, 2017

Welcome to CTQ!

Please read the Terms of Service (“Terms”, “Terms of Service”) carefully before using the www.teachingquality.org website (the “Service”) operated by Center for Teaching Quality, Inc. (“CTQ”, “us”,”we”, “our”) located at 605 W. Main Street, Carrboro, North Carolina 27510, United States.

Your access to and use of the Service is conditioned on your acceptance of and compliance with these terms. The Terms apply to all visitors, users and others who access or use the Service.

Using our Services

Our Services are very diverse, so sometimes additional terms or product requirements (including age requirements) may apply. Additional terms will be available with the relevant Services, and those additional terms become part of your agreement with us if you use those Services.

By accessing or using the Service you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you disagree with any part of the terms then you may not access the Service.

You must follow any policies made available to you within the Services.

Don’t misuse our Services. For example, don’t interfere with our Services or try to access them using a method other than the interface and the instructions that we provide. You may use our Services only as permitted by law, including applicable export and re-export control laws and regulations. We may suspend or stop providing our Services to you if you do not comply with our terms or policies or if we are investigating suspected misconduct.

Using our Services does not give you ownership of any intellectual property rights in our Services or the content you access. You may not use content from our Services unless you obtain permission from its owner or are otherwise permitted by law. These terms do not grant you the right to use any branding or logos used in our Services. Don’t remove, obscure, or alter any legal notices displayed in or along with our Services.

Our Services display some content that is not CTQ’s. This content is the sole responsibility of the entity that makes it available. We may review content to determine whether it is illegal or violates our policies, and we may remove or refuse to display content that we reasonably believe violates our policies or the law. But that does not necessarily mean that we review content, so please don’t assume that we do.

In connection with your use of the Services, we may send you service announcements, administrative messages, and other information. You may opt out of some of those communications.

Some of our Services are available on mobile devices. Do not use such Services in a way that distracts you and prevents you from obeying traffic or safety laws.

You may need a CTQ Account in order to use some of our Services. You may create your own CTQ Account, or your CTQ Account may be assigned to you by an administrator, such as CTQ Staff, your employer or educational institution. If you are using a CTQ Account assigned to you by an administrator, different or additional terms may apply and your administrator may be able to access or disable your account.

To protect your CTQ Account, keep your password confidential. You are responsible for the activity that happens on or through your CTQ Account. Try not to reuse your CTQ Account password on third-party applications. If you learn of any unauthorized use of your password or CTQ Account, report to CTQ administrator immediately.

Privacy and Copyright Protection

CTQ’s privacy policies explain how we treat your personal data and protect your privacy when you use our Services. By using our Services, you agree that CTQ can use such data in accordance with our privacy policies.

We respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement and terminate accounts of repeat infringers according to the process set out in the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

We provide information to help copyright holders manage their intellectual property online. If you think somebody is violating your copyrights and want to notify us, you can find information about submitting notices and CTQ’s policy about responding to notices in our About CTQ section of the Service.

Your Content in our Services

Some of our Services allow you to upload, submit, store, send or receive content. You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours.

When you upload, submit, store, send or receive content to or through our Services, you give CTQ (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This license continues even if you stop using our Services (for example, for a business listing you have added to CTQ Maps). Some Services may offer you ways to access and remove content that has been provided to that Service. Also, in some of our Services, there are terms or settings that narrow the scope of our use of the content submitted in those Services. Make sure you have the necessary rights to grant us this license for any content that you submit to our Services.

If you have a CTQ Account, we may display your Profile name, Profile photo, and actions you take on CTQ or on third-party applications connected to your CTQ Account (such as blogs you write and comments you post) in our Services.

Modifying and Terminating our Services

We may terminate or suspend access to our Service immediately, without prior notice or liability, for any reason whatsoever, including without limitation if you breach the Terms.

All provisions of the Terms which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, with limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability.

We are constantly changing and improving our Services. We may add or remove functionalities or features, and we may suspend or stop a Service altogether.

You can stop using our Services at any time, although we’ll be sorry to see you go. CTQ may also stop providing Services to you, or add or create new limits to our Services at any time.

We believe that you own your data and preserving your access to such data is important. If we discontinue a Service, where reasonably possible, we will give you reasonable advance notice and a chance to get information out of that Service.

About these Terms

We may modify these terms or any additional terms that apply to a Service to, for example, reflect changes to the law or changes to our Services. You should look at the terms regularly. We’ll post notice of modifications to these terms on this page. We’ll post notice of modified additional terms in the applicable Service. Changes will not apply retroactively and will become effective no sooner than fourteen days after they are posted. However, changes addressing new functions for a Service or changes made for legal reasons will be effective immediately. If you do not agree to the modified terms for a Service, you should discontinue your use of that Service.

If there is a conflict between these terms and the additional terms, the additional terms will control for that conflict.

These terms control the relationship between CTQ and you. They do not create any third party beneficiary rights.

If you do not comply with these terms, and we don’t take action right away, this doesn’t mean that we are giving up any rights that we may have (such as taking action in the future).

If it turns out that a particular term is not enforceable, this will not affect any other terms.

The laws of North Carolina, U.S.A., excluding North Carolina’s conflict of laws rules, will apply to any disputes arising out of or relating to these terms or the Services. All claims arising out of or relating to these terms or the Services will be litigated exclusively in the federal or state courts of Orange County, North Carolina, USA, and you and CTQ consent to personal jurisdiction in those courts.

For information about how to contact CTQ, please visit our contact page.